diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index dcab7a989a..887718e8c5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Trunk (not on release branches yet)
 - Fixed a variety of threading/locking bugs.
 - Fixed some compiler warnings associated with ROMIO, OS X, and gridengine.
 - If pbs-config can be found, use it to look for TM support.  Thanks
-  to Bas van der Viles for the inspiration and preliminary work.
+  to Bas van der Vlies for the inspiration and preliminary work.
 - Fixed a deadlock in orterun when the rsh PLS encounters some errors.